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Ezra Pound's (post)modern poetics and politics : logocentrism, language, and truth / Roxana Preda.
Van Pelt Library PS3531.O82 Z787 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Preda, Roxana, 1959-
- Series:
- Studies in literary criticism and theory ; v. 14.
- Studies in literary criticism and theory ; v. 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Political and social views.
- Pound, Ezra.
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Aesthetics.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- History.
- Language and languages--Political aspects.
- Language and languages.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Aesthetics.
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Language.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2001]
- Contents:
- I. The Word and the Real in the Postmodern Discourse
- The Winter of Postmodern Discontent: Canonization and Its Difficulties 5
- The Avatars of Logocentrism: Hegel, Fenollosa, Pound 24
- Pound and the Contingency of Language 50
- II. History and/or Space: Pound's Translations
- Towards a Postmodern Poetics of Translation 65
- The Broken Pieces of the Vessel: Pound and Cavalcanti 83
- Portrait of Propertius as a Young Pound: The Making of a Final Vocabulary 101
- III. Quotation and Rupture: The Cantos under a Postmodern Scrutiny
- Between Cubism and Postmodernism: The Cantos as Collage 117
- Endings Dis/Continued: Canto CIX 139
- Reweaving The Cantos: an Anti-Essentialist View 154
- IV. Pound's Politics in the Context of Postmodernism
- Political Antagonists: Pound and Postmodernism 167
- Presence and Authority: Pound's Radio Speeches 191
- Rorty, Pound, and the Questioning of Liberalism 205
- V. The Total, the Recurrent, the Local: History in The Cantos
- History as Politics: Cantos LII-LXXI 221
- The Bank as Figure: an Archeology of the Historical Discourse in The Cantos 249
- Force vs. Persuasion: The Bank War as Differend 268
- Chronology of the Second Bank of the United States 1816-1841 282.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820449830
- OCLC:
- 43365785
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